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Events on Friday 9 July 1937 3
1937 – presentDavid HockneyContemporary · EnglandDavid Hockney (born July 9, 1937) is a British Contemporary painter, draughtsman and photographer. His California swimming pool paintings and Yorkshire landscape series are among the most celebrated British artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries.
1937 – 2026David HockneyPainter, photographer, printmakerDavid Hockney was an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. A leading figure in the 1960s pop art movement, he became famous for his sun-drenched depictions of Los Angeles swimming pools before returning to Yorkshire to paint the landscape of his youth, and later embraced digital tools including the iPad as a drawing medium.
1937David Hockney born in Bradford9 July 1937David Hockney is born on 9 July 1937 in Bradford, Yorkshire, the fourth of five children of an accountant's clerk. He grows up in a working-class household that values art, music and pacifism.